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By KIPP SHACKELFORD
Battalion Reporter
be Texas A&M University Cen-
for Education and Research in
Enterprise has recently ap-
jnted financial economist Dr.
jeC. Uselton as its new director,
tive June 1.
[he Center is an organization
in programs designed to
ease citizen understanding of
1 urniic concepts.
nt(l 11 (selton said his main objective is
ontinue the programs currently
11114 igconducted by John Allen, act-
director of the Center. He said
Center’s goal is to educate
bers and students all over the -
state about of the free enterprise
system.
‘THE PROBLEM IS that most
students just don’t understand how
markets operate and allocate re
sources,” Uselton said. He said that
the Center’s programs will help
clearly explain how the market sys
tems work.
Uselton said the Center will con
duct research on all different types
of markets. “I hope we can promote
and publish research findings not
only in technical language, but also
in simpler terms, so it can be under
stood by anyone,” Uselton said.
Uselton, who will join the de
partment of finance at Texas A&M,
is currently a professor of industrial
management at Clemson Univer
sity. He has taught at Texas Tech
University and holds an under
graduate degree from Southern
Methodist University and a doctor
ate in economics from the Univer
sity of Texas. He also conducted
post doctoral studies at the Sloan
School of Management, at the Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology.
BEFORE ENTERING THE
teaching profession, Uselton was
manager of the worldwide sales or
ganization responsible for marketing
Hughes Tool Co. earth-boring
machinery.
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By CATHY KIRKHAM
Battalion Reporter
ie Texas Agricultural Extension
ice will hold its twelfth annual
s day on March 29 and 30 at
is A&M University,
hades el» le P r0 8 ram is designed to in
media in the state on a variety
Ixtension activities. The topics
with agriculture, business and
inanity development, home in
flation, public affairs and public
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the program was designed with
* objectives in mind:
fobuild closer working relations
feen the extension service and
media; and to give the state
ia information to use that is
Worthy. ”
raden said BO media representa-
> B 5 usually accept an invitation
81 (attend the programs.
esaid 'Press Day is scheduled to
ide with one of the service’s
headquarters conference meet-
hat is held three times a year.
|this time, subject matter
Jalists are in from the 14 exten-
lservices in the state.
Igistration for Press Day will
fi'iaLlOa.m. Thursday, March
J>n the second floor of Rudder
l er '
lat afternoon, media represen-
Ics will have a chance to inter-
| extension service personnel,
jiday, an extension overview
take place. There will be 10
-to-four minute presentations.
A&M UnBerviews will continue through-
LanguajBthe afternoon and Gov. Bill
lents may come in to speak that
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Speed limit hike
killed in Wyoming
United Press International
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The Wyoming House, heeding pleas for
intensified energy conservation because of the Iranian revolution,
has effectively killed the 65 mph speed limit for the 1979 legislative
session.
Representatives Monday soundly defeated a compromise proposal
calling for decreased fines for speeders instead of an increase in the
speed limit. The compromise was offered as a solution to federal
threats to withdraw nearly $52 million in highway trust fund money.
The federal money would be cut off if the speed limit were increased,
and the measure faced a cold shoulder in the House.
So a compromise bill modeled after a Montana statute was intro
duced. It would have decreased speeding fines to $5 for motorists
traveling between 55 and 64 mph but stiffened penalties to $30 for
those driving between 65 and 74.
But the bill died Monday after a decisively adverse vote— which
drew only 20 supporters — and House Majority Leader Russ Donley
said the 65 mph speed limit issue had effectively been killed for the
session.
The bill’s chief opponent was Speaker Warren Morton, who said
the need to conserve energy has intensified because of the advent of
the revolution in Iran. He said the turmoil has cost the nation 6
million barrels of oil daily and he predicted mandatory oil allocations
and coupon rationing by the summer.
“We are a part of these United States,” he said. “We are subject to
the U.S. Constitition. We cannot withdraw from the world and create
some peculiar energy world of our own.
“If you think the federal government will tolerate a local practice
that will not encourage the conservation of energy you are fooling
yourselves, he added.
The House action was glumly observed by Sen. Cal Taggart, chief
sponsor of the 65 mph bill in the Senate. He said some form of change
in the law still was necessary because of current flagrant violations
that are demoralizing to highway patrolmen.
But he admitted there was little chance of reviving the issue before
the Feb. 23 end of the session, “unless they open their damn heads.
They’re either hypocrites or they haven t got their heads on straight.
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stioned on their romantic pref
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Policy,” and co-author of “The Eco
nomics of Federal Disaster Relief.”
He is editor of “The Review of In
dustrial Management and Textile
Science” and co-editor of the “The
Dekker Series in Business, Eco
nomics, and Finance.”
One division of the Center is the
Teacher Training Extension pro
gram, designed to improve teacher
understanding of economics in gen
eral and the American economic
system.
The Center’s on-campus training
program, the American Economy
Institute, is taught each summer at
Texas A&M. It involves a group of
career teachers, instructional lead
ers and other key personalities
across the state gathering for several
weeks of training on topics crucial to
the understanding of the free
enterprise system. Participants
earn five-credit hours at the
graduate level for successful com
pletion of the course.
THE SIXTH ANNUAL program
is scheduled for June 4-29, and
enrollment will be limited to 50 par
ticipants.
Because the American Economy
Institute can reach only a limited
number of teachers, another pro
gram has been created in which
Center personnel present programs
on economics to teachers at indi
vidual schools throughout the state.
Dr. Lawrence C. Wolken, a staff
economist, said the Center found
that many teachers around the state
had no formal training in economics,
and that this was the reason for es
tablishment of the training pro
grams.
“WE TRY TO DETERMINE the
individual school district’s needs
and then plan a program to fit those
needs,” Wolken said.
Teachers from seven districts and
the Houston area have participated
in the workshops so far.
In addition to on-site visits by
Center personnel, the extension
program develops and sends out
critiques of instructional materials
to educators. They attempt to com
ment critically on the content of ma
terials and their actual usability in
the classroom.
At the district levels, the staff
works with curriculum planners in
developing economic education
programs.
TEXAS TEACHERS WILL be
invited to the Second Annual Lead
ership Conference on Free
Enterprise Education, April 6-7 at
Texas A&M in which two programs
will be featured. The first, for public
school administrators will deal with
managerial issues associated with
the free enterprise system. The
other will be primarily for teachers,
demonstrating free enterprise ideas
and models to be used in the class
room.
The Center has been asked to
present workshops to the Distribu
tive Education Clubs of America at
its annual national meeting in May,
and some 7,500 students and
teachers are expected to attend.
THE NATIONAL SECRE
TARIES ASSOCIATION has cho
sen the American Free Enterprise
system as its 1980 project, and has
asked the Center to prepare the
necessary programs and materials.
The Free Enterprise Center,
which was founded in January 1977,
is self-supported and receives no
appropriations from the govern
ment. It was given an initial fund of
$250,000 by some 70,000 members
of the Alumni Association of Texas
A&M for start-up costs. Now con
tributions to the Center are ap
proaching $2 million, 75 percent
from endorsements.
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